Climate change is amazing—if you’re a rat
In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.
Climate change made the L.A. wildfires 35 percent more likely
A new report suggests that climate change-induced factors, like reduced rainfall, primed conditions for the Palisades and ...
The U.S. built a covert Cold War base under a Greenland glacier. Its secrets are now being revealed.
What the visiting journalists weren’t told—nor were many of the soldiers living at the station, which could house up to ...
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Rising Seas
This story appears in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Six years ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report predicting a maximum of ...
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Why It’s Important to Save Our Seas’ Pristine Places
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence ... and the mounting impacts of climate change, Earle is part of an effort by marine scientists and conservationists ...
Here's what really caused L.A. fire hydrants to run out of water
As unprecedented wildfires raged through Los Angeles, some firefighters suddenly lost access to water. City officials called ...
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How extreme heat might change your kid's summers
According the Copernicus Climate Change Service, that June was the hottest month in North America on record, more than two degrees above the average from 1991 to 2020. And 2020 was the hottest ...